July Update

July Update

Its been Quite Quiet on the Wargaming front this month.
 been focusing on painting on my two projects at the moment.

First being my Warmaster Ancient Roman force
which you can see the progress here and here.

Second project is my warhammer 40'000 Orks.
 i've build and undercoated most of the force, just waiting to get a weirdboy in finecast to finish the list off.

Events
With Claymore edinburgh only a few weeks away. Claymore has always been a big event in the wargaming calender.  I have been attending this event for the last three years but this is the first time i have been running urban war demo games there. so i've been preparing all the Urban War 2nd edition Demo gear at the event.

Roleplaying

As i plan to link both games as a follow on. i now have all the PC characters

 Dark Heresy  characters

Kar, Feral world Guardsman
Soloman "Cutter" Garvel, Hive world Scum
Krell "Stern" Rabalias, Hive World scum
Zetkin, Void born psyker
Nihilus Zarkov, Imperial world Arbitrator
Novus Dorn, Imperial world Tech priest

 Deathwatch characters

Kill-Team
Imperial Fist Apothecary
Makradon, Dark angel tactical Marine
Sepheran, Blood Angel Assault Marine
Varenus, Ultramarine Assault Marine
Baldar, Space wolf Devastator
Kestyr, Dark Sentinel Librarian

Dark Sentinels are a custom made chapter using the Rules in the Rites of battle supplement.

I will post up rules for using Dark Sentinels as PC's in the future.

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Early Imperial Romans - Warmaster Ancients -Part II

Early Imperial Romans - Warmaster Ancients -Part II

Progress has been going well, the army is entired basecoated, and based.

 Only the cavalry are not based as  they need to be painted on the strip, then clipped and arranged on the base.

2 Legates     

Unit of Legionaries     

    

       

 Unit of Auxiliary light cavalry   

 unit of Auxiliary Archers      
        

Early Imperial Romans - Warmaster Ancients -Part I

Early Imperial Romans - Warmaster Ancients

Part I

The long awaited Warmaster ancients finally arrived from the lovely people at Baccus.

The first thing I must say is the that Miniatures are great. The main infantry comes in strips of  four (as you can see from the pictures above), and you'll need two for each rank and they fit perfectly on a base of 40x20mm.


I started to build one of each unit to see if I could paint then in the unit or whether I'd have to paint each rank at a time. Luckily enough I've been able to paint the second rank with no difficulty. The Baccus stuff is 6mm scale, smaller than standard Warmaster, but I like the smaller miniatures as it gives a grander epic scale to the force.

Auxilia Archers

Scorpion bolt throwers

Legion

Skirmishers

My force list:

General
2 Legates     
1 unit of Veteran Legionaries      
4 units of Legionaries             
3 units of Auxiliary Infantry      
2 units of Auxiliary heavy cavalry 
1 unit of Auxiliary light cavalry  
2 units of Auxiliary Archers       
1 unit of Scorpion Bolt Throwers            
2 units of Skirmishers             
Portents